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Hiolle, A., Cañamero, L. & Blanchard, A. (2007). "Learning to interact with the caretaker: a developemental approach", In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interactions, 2007, 425–-436.
Abstract:
To build autonomous robots able to live and interact with humans in a real-world dynamic and uncertain environment, the design of architectures permitting robots to develop attachment bonds to humans and use them to build their own model of the world is a promising avenue, not only to improve human-robot interaction and adaptation to the environment, but also as a way to develop further cognitive and emotional capabilities. In this paper we present a neural architecture to enable a robot to develop an attachment bond with a person or an object, and to discover the correct sensorimotor associations to maintain a desired affective state of well-being using a minimum amount of prior knowledge about the possible interactions with this object.